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Art Director Salary By State

Google Trend of an Art Director has showed a slow decline since January 2004. The peak interest of an Art Director however is still strong comparatively. The Art Director job field is projected to be highly competitive with online and digital media steadily taking over traditional print media.

Art directors are responsible for what advertisements, newspapers, books, magazines and etc. look like. They are involved in creating a campaign that has an instant, positive impact on the consumer in order to promote the product or brand being advertised. On a daily basis, art directors may: design promotional, advertising and public relations materials and campaigns; review a design team’s performance and production; collaborate with other marketing and creative departments; and develop or refine project budgets.

Bureau of Labor Statistics information for an Art Director shows that the median wage reported in 2010 was $80,630 a year or also pays about $38.77 an hour. The typical education required for an Art Director to start earning this generous salary is a Bachelor’s Degree in an art or design subject as well as previous work experience. Depending on the industry, Directors of Art may have worked as graphic designers, illustrators, copy editors, or photographers, or in another art or design occupation, before becoming Art Directors. The number of jobs available to Art Directors in 2010 was reported by the BLS as 73,900 total jobs with a growth rate expectation of 9% which is slower than most careers on average. The amount of Art Director jobs added from 2010 – 2020 is expected to be 6,700 added to the job marketplace. While many of our state by state salaries for Art Directors are in line with BLS salary numbers, you’ll see that some states pay as much as $84,000 a year. This shows that the decision on a location to take a job as an Art Director could make your difference in pay be as much as $3,370 a year.

Art Director Salary Information For 2015

This table displays Art Director Salaries By State so that people can compare how much an Art Director makes in a specific state. This comparison engine will help people easily identify the best salaries for Art Directors.

Career

State

Salary

Percent

Data Year

Art Director

Wyoming

$60,000

17% lower

2015

Art Director

Alabama

$74,000

1% higher

2015

Art Director

Alaska

$54,000

26% lower

2015

Art Director

American Samoa

$88,000

20% higher

2015

Art Director

Arizona

$60,000

18% lower

2015

Art Director

Arkansas

$75,000

2% higher

2015

Art Director

California

$78,000

7% higher

2015

Art Director

Colorado

$65,000

11% lower

2015

Art Director

Connecticut

$84,000

15% higher

2015

Art Director

Delaware

$64,000

12% lower

2015

Art Director

Florida

$68,000

7% lower

2015

Art Director

Georgia

$84,000

14% higher

2015

Art Director

Guam

$67,000

9% lower

2015

Art Director

Hawaii

$45,000

38% lower

2015

Art Director

Idaho

$48,000

34% lower

2015

Art Director

Illinois

$83,000

13% higher

2015

Art Director

Indiana

$70,000

4% lower

2015

Art Director

Iowa

$72,000

2% lower

2015

Art Director

Kansas

$67,000

9% lower

2015

Art Director

Kentucky

$63,000

14% lower

2015

Art Director

Louisiana

$65,000

11% lower

2015

Art Director

Maine

$65,000

12% lower

2015

Art Director

Maryland

$75,000

3% higher

2015

Art Director

Massachusetts

$88,000

20% higher

2015

Art Director

Michigan

$74,000

1% higher

2015

Art Director

Minnesota

$64,000

13% lower

2015

Art Director

Mississippi

$77,000

5% higher

2015

Art Director

Missouri

$72,000

2% lower

2015

Art Director

Montana

$61,000

17% lower

2015

Art Director

Nebraska

$54,000

27% lower

2015

Art Director

Nevada

$56,000

24% lower

2015

Art Director

New Hampshire

$72,000

1% lower

2015

Art Director

New Jersey

$79,000

8% higher

2015

Art Director

New Mexico

$64,000

13% lower

2015

Art Director

New York

$89,000

21% higher

2015

Art Director

North Carolina

$70,000

5% lower

2015

Art Director

North Dakota

$65,000

11% lower

2015

Art Director

Ohio

$70,000

4% lower

2015

Art Director

Oklahoma

$68,000

8% lower

2015

Art Director

Oregon

$71,000

3% lower

2015

Art Director

Pennsylvania

$71,000

4% lower

2015

Art Director

Puerto Rico

$71,000

3% lower

2015

Art Director

Rhode Island

$67,000

9% lower

2015

Art Director

South Carolina

$72,000

1% lower

2015

Art Director

South Dakota

$55,000

25% lower

2015

Art Director

Tennessee

$68,000

7% lower

2015

Art Director

Texas

$71,000

3% lower

2015

Art Director

Utah

$57,000

22% lower

2015

Art Director

Vermont

$65,000

12% lower

2015

Art Director

Virgin Islands

$75,000

2% higher

2015

Art Director

Virginia

$74,000

1% higher

2015

Art Director

Washington DC

$92,000

25% higher

2015

Art Director

Washington

$76,000

3% higher

2015

Art Director

West Virginia

$69,000

6% lower

2015

Art Director

Wisconsin

$65,000

11% lower

2015

Listed below is information that is specific to Art Director job salaries that you can expect to receive in that state area. Our state by state breakdown allows you to see which state is best to get a job as an Art Director. The salary information provided below is off of real-world job listings for Art Directors and the pay offered for those jobs. We source Indeed, Simply Hired, PayScale and GlassDoor.com. The information provided by Indeed about their process for collecting salary averages is as follows: “Indeed Salary Search is based on an index of salary information extracted from over 50 million job postings from thousands of unique sources over the last 12 months. Many job descriptions don’t contain salary information, but there are enough that do to produce statistically significant median salaries for millions of keyword, job title and location combinations – in fact, most job searches you are likely to think of. As new jobs are added each day, the Indeed Salary Search index is automatically updated with fresh salary data, so the salary results are as up-to-date as they could possibly be.”